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Thomas of Cantimpré (Latin: Thomas Cantipratensis) (1201 – 15 May 1272) was a Flemish Roman Catholic medieval writer, preacher, and theologian. He is especially known for his great encyclopedia on nature, De Natura Rerum, and for Bonum Universale de Apibus, a preaching aid which uses bees as an allegory for human society. BiographyThomas was born of noble parentage at Sint-Pieters-Leeuw near Brussels, in the Duchy of Brabant in 1201; died 15 May 1272. At the age of five his education began at Liège, where he spent eleven years mastering the difficulties of the trivium and quadrivium. At the age of sixteen he received the habit of the Canons Regular of St. Augustine in the {{Interlanguage link multi|Abbey of Cantimpré|fr|3=Abbaye de Cantimpré}}, where he was eventually elevated to the priesthood. In 1232 after fifteen years at Cantimpré, during which he was a constant source of edification to his religious brethren, he entered the Order of St. Dominic at Leuven, also in Brabant. Immediately after his profession in the following year, he was sent to Cologne to pursue the higher theological studies of the order, under the tutelage of the illustrious Albert the Great. From Cologne, where he spent four years, he went to Paris, to the Dominican studium of St. James, to perfect himself in the sciences and to prepare for the apostolate of preaching. Returning to Leuven in 1240, he was instructed to write a vita of Margaret of Ypres, and was made professor of philosophy and theology—an office he filled with rare distinction. He achieved equal success in the apostolate of preaching, in recognition of which the title of "Preacher General" was conferred upon him. His missionary activities extended throughout Brabant and into Germany, Belgium, and France. WritingsIn all, seven works are attributed to Thomas of Cantimpré, treating of philosophy, theology and hagiology:
One significant work from Thomas was a hagiography of Mary of Oignies. This work, written around 1230, was a supplemental volume to Jacques de Vitry’s “Life of Marie d’Oignies. [1] It was one of the earliest written accounts of the beguine life and Thomas’ first writing on holy women. The Oignies community specifically requested his authorship to propagate the work of their community. [2] Cantimpre was so impressed by Marie Origine’s expressive spirituality that, although he was her confessor, he admitted to being her disciple, she the master. [3] Jacob van Maerlant's Van der Naturen Bloeme is a Dutch translation of De natura rerum, the natural history in twenty books by Thomas of Cantimpré. Konrad of Megenberg's Buch der Natur, published in 1475, was based on Cantimpré's book.[4]Sources
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ReferencesFootnotes1. ^Thomas de Cantimpre and Hugh Feiss. Supplement to The life of Marie d'Oignies. Saskatoon, Sask: Peregrina Pub. Co, 1987. pg 12 2. ^Fulton, Rachel, and Bruce W. Holsinger. History in the comic mode medieval communities and the matter of person. New York: Columbia University Press, 2007. pg 46 3. ^Jacques de Vitry and Margot H. King. The life of Marie d'Oignies. Toronto, Ont: Peregrina, 1989. pg 7 4. ^{{cite web |url = http://www.wdl.org/en/item/3158/ |title = Book of Nature |website = World Digital Library |date = 1481-08-20 |accessdate = 2013-08-30 }}
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